“I arrived and this guy was hammering away on the teeth.”
Shane Anderson of the University of California, Santa Barbara, who found a college student illegally trying to take teeth from a sperm whale that washed up dead on a nearby beach (Los Angeles Times, 10 April)
“A pratfall on the world stage.”
Pier Oddone, director of Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, in a letter to staff about the failure of a magnet support supplied by Fermilab to the CERN particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. Design errors were to blame (The Sunday Times, London, 8 April)
“Females may be adjusting their preferences away from males more likely…
